On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 16:07 +1000, Loki Davison wrote: > On 6/16/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 14:37 +1000, Loki Davison wrote: > > > Has anyone tried the 2.6.17 series kernel with ingo patches on 64 bit? > > > I've tried the 2.6.16 and couldn't get it to boot. Locked up after the > > > loading schedulars message. I'm hoping 2.6.17 might actually work for > > > me. > > > > That bug should be fixed with the last 2.6.16 -rt patch. > > > > Lee > > > > > > Nice one, guess i'll try on the weekend. Any idea how to copy and > change the fs of your root partition? I guess i copy it to my spare > harddrive then boot to cd and copy the data back over? My new 300gb > sata harddrive is ext3 but my root drive and other data drive is > reiser3. > I would recommend you attack one issue at a time. But yes, that will work. It might not even be the case anymore that reiser3 causes latency problems - the -rt kernel and the introduction of the preemptible BKL probably improved the situation. It has been a long time since I tested it. Lee
